Peeling a piece of fruit at a local café, the hispanogerman duo that is Family Time was brought to tears. Or so they sung on their first single in years, ‘New Positions’, released in September.

 

They now bring forward a new single, hailing the anticipated follow-up to their magical pop opera debut, The Great Abismo. The band has previously stated that the backbone of their new songs was largely born out of this singular, feverishly caffeine-fuelled sitting. Yet the mood here shifts dramatically. If their previous single was reminiscent of that first steamy flair of freshly poured coffee; the tantalizing effects of the cautious first sip; with its curling, inquisitive, apathetically mathematical thought patterns; we are now thrown into the deep end. A freak-country-meets-the-synth-solo rocker seems to dance to the tune of a classic caffeine rush in full throttle, fifteen minutes after that first sip, ravaged by doubt and anxiety.

 

No longer are we presented with cool-headedly recollected fragments of intimacy, all here is a sardonic rant on a completely different subject matter: there is talk of money, there is talk of entreprenurial wisdom, there is talk of “Bill and Melinda” (Gates), but most of all, there is here a burning uncertainty: if one is perceptive to the rigged game of success, how can one possibly play it in peace?